UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
As news of COVID-19 was just starting to break, some UW-CTRI staff were in New Orleans to present their research on tobacco use at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) March 12-14. Others stayed home due to concerns about the spreading coronavirus, canceling travel and sending posters or …
Installment five of our series on BREATHE 2 collaborators Dr. Linda Collins isn’t just an international expert at optimizing healthcare treatments that save lives. She’s also an expert at the very important task of helping her granddaughter optimize desserts. Together, they make one heck of an ice cream sandwich cake. (Pro tip: layer ice cream sandwiches …
UW-CTRI staff contributed a chapter to the new report from US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on smoking cessation. UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Timothy Baker, Outreach Director Rob Adsit, and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore wrote chapter 7 in the report, “Clinical-, System-, and Population-Level Strategies that Promote Smoking Cessation.” UW-CTRI Librarian Dr. Wendy Theobald …
Dr. Wei-Yin Loh has written computer software code from scratch spanning 80,000 lines that has revolutionized UW-CTRI’s ability to predict important outcomes. Nowadays, computer code is available for free on the Internet (known as “open source”) but, when Loh started writing his computer code to help predict variables in 1990, it wasn’t that easy. “The …
UW-CTRI Receives $14M Grant from National Cancer Institute to Partner with Health Systems, Match Quit-Smoking Treatments to Individual Patients: UW-CTRI’s Fifth Straight Center Grant MADISON—In a first, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will compare the most effective treatments to help people quit smoking in real-world clinics, with a …
A group of experts from around the country met at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin in August to discuss progress on partnerships between UW-CTRI, Epic, Smokefree.gov, and three Wisconsin health-care systems to leverage electronic health records (EHR) technology to help patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore presented on several projects made possible by …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented research findings at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine (DOM) Research Day June 15 at the Health Sciences Learning Center on the UW campus in Madison. This included an oral presentation by UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy and five posters. Here’s a rundown: Presentation Dr. Danielle …
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker received the 2016 Ove Ferno Award at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Grand Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. The award honors scientists who have made groundbreaking advances in clinical research. It recognizes those who have made a significant impact on the …
The annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) is the first week of March in Chicago at the Sheraton Hotel and several UW-CTRI researchers are set to present: Thursday Friday Saturday Watch for a full report from SRNT Chicago at www.ctri.wisc.edu. Katrina Bundy is coordinating arrangements for the conference for UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker has been named the recipient of the 2016 Ove Ferno Award, honoring scientists who have made groundbreaking advances in clinical research. The award recognizes those who have made a significant impact on the understanding of nicotine addiction and treatments to help patients quit tobacco use. Baker will receive the award next …